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Code and Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo),
Foreign Office, 17th May, 1959. 7.00 p.m.
No. 229.
198
R Begins.
Peking telegrams Nos. 129 and 130 to Shanghai [Challenge to status of Legation Quarter and Tientsin Concession].
R Ends.
While I do not think there is any need to be unduly alarmed
at this further evidence of a concerted plan to increase
pressure on foreign interests in China, to allow it to pass
unnoticed might encourage the Japanese to proceed to more concrete steps.
R Begins.
2. Unless you see serious objection, therefore, I think you
should, at a suitable opportunity, indicate to Minister for
Foreign Affairs your surprise at statement of military spokesman
and ask for an assurance that the views expressed were not those
of Japanese Government. You should at the same time make it clear that His Majesty's Government would not for one moment be prepared to consider the unilateral modification, either by the Japanese or
by the puppet Government set up by them, of existing status of
Legation Quarter or of Tientsin Concession, which is based on established treaty rights.
R Ends.
3. I am repeating this telegram to Paris and Washington
with
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